Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [pers pn] [vb past] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were also lucky enough to find Goutama , whom I remembered as a young syce in the Legation stables when I was a boy ; he had accompanied my father on his long trek to Nairobi in 1914 . |
| 2 | Mrs Adams said her four sons — Richard , nine , Stuart , five , Mark , two , and Thomas , 11 months — were still coming to terms with the loss of their father , a former Royal Air Force engineer whom she described as a happy , family man . |
| 3 | ‘ Their firms brought in somebody from outside who they treated as a glorified office manager and the culture refused to change . |
| 4 | Mr Sedgemore was later allowed into the hotel to put the protesters ' case to Mr Maxwell , and the MP said afterwards that the millionaire publisher — who he described as a distinguished socialist — had insisted that he would under no circumstances take back his former employees . |
| 5 | We had both come to hate it and its invisible driver , whom we visualized as a smug glutton sleeping in a comfortable bed each night and stuffing his face with three square meals a day . |
| 6 | As a local — he was from Thorn — and as a farmer with business interests in the Free City , they had trusted his leadership far more than they trusted Forster , whom they saw as a boorish Bavarian appointed by Berlin . |
| 7 | They resented Lloyd George for ousting his predecessor Asquith , whom they admired as a great Liberal prime minister . |
| 8 | And for those , especially within the Movement , for whom it ranked as a burning issue , Hitler 's words were clearly taken as a signal and sanction for further radical action and were increasingly treated as a literal description of what was actually taking place . |
| 9 | Mujjaddedi had on June 21 threatened not to hand over power ( as required by the Peshawar accord ) to Rabbani , whom he branded as a Khomeini-like Islamic radical . |
| 10 | He suddenly laughed , then looked at Ellen whom he perceived as a possible ally . |
| 11 | She had met him back home in the west country when he had come to supervise a show put on by one of the big ready-to-wear labels , Carnega , for whom he worked as a junior member of the design team . |